Berkeley Talks: Comedian Maz Jobrani On Noticing The Good In His Life

Berkeley CA

02 January, 2021

10:22 PM

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Press release from the University of California, Berkeley: January 1, 2021 Read the transcript. Subscribe to Berkeley Talks, a Berkeley News podcast that features lectures and conversations at UC Berkeley. Comedian Maz Jobrani was on an episode of the Science of Happiness, a podcast by UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center. (Artwork by Whitney Anderson) In this Berkeley Talks episode, we revisit an interview that we first shared in 2019: Growing up in an immigrant family, comedian Maz Jobrani knew his parents wanted him to be a lawyer or doctor, maybe an engineer. When he became a comedian, he says, the whole community was sad for the family. "They were like, 'Did you hear about Jobrani's son? Yeah, it's a shame. He's almost a drug dealer." Jobrani was recently a guest on the Science of Happiness, a podcast from the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley. In his episode, called "Notice the Good in Your Life," Jobrani talks with host Dacher Keltner, a psychology professor and the founder and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center, about his 2017 stand-up special on Netflix, Immigrant. Listen to the full conversation in Berkeley Talks episode #104: "Comedian Maz Jobrani on noticing the good in his life." This press release was produced by the University of California, Berkeley. The views expressed here are the author's own.